Who are tomorrow’s people?

Is human nature about to change forever? Can we imagine a world where everything we take for granted about ourselves - imagination, free will, love, learning, memory, desire – have disappeared?

This theme will be explored in the University of Teesside’s Annual Science and Technology lecture on Wednesday 15 March. Entitled ‘Tomorrow’s People’, the lecture will be delivered by Baroness Professor Susan Greenfield from 6.30pm – 8pm. The lecture is free and open to the public. To book a place please contact Rachel Frampton, by e-mail at r.frampton@tees.ac.uk or call 01642 342428.

Baroness Greenfield holds many distinguished offices including Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Oxford and Director of the Royal Institution.

In addition, she has made major contributions in communicating science to the general public through a wide range of TV and radio broadcasts. In 1994 Baroness Greenfield was the first woman to give the Royal Institution Christmas lectures. Four years later she received the Michael Faraday medal from the Royal Society for making the most significant contribution to the public understanding of science.

Baroness Greenfield said: “This lecture will offer the prospect of a world free of pain and disease, where we can manipulate our bodies with machinery, our moods with 'smart drugs' and our innate nature with gene therapy. Where what we eat, our relationships, jobs, even the way we fight wars will be transformed by technology. Meanwhile, 'home' might become a blur of artificial images, sounds, textures and smells, oblivious to any other reality. In this virtual realm of 'dreams and shadows', the notion of our individual self may, in fact, be obliterated entirely.”

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